<div class="doc-item" id="doc-1523"><h2 class="doc-item-name">intern<span class="namespace">(clojure.core)</span></h2><ul class="var-arglists"><li>(<span class="var-name">intern</span> ns name)</li><li>(<span class="var-name">intern</span> ns name val)</li></ul><div class="var-docstring"><p>Finds or creates a var named by the symbol name in the namespace
  ns (which can be a symbol or a namespace), setting its root binding
  to val if supplied. The namespace must exist. The var will adopt any
  metadata from the name symbol.  Returns the var.</p></div><div class="var-source"><pre>; clojure/core.clj:3858
(defn intern
  ([ns #^clojure.lang.Symbol name]
     (let [v (clojure.lang.Var/intern (the-ns ns) name)]
       (when ^name (.setMeta v ^name))
       v))
  ([ns name val]
     (let [v (clojure.lang.Var/intern (the-ns ns) name val)]
       (when ^name (.setMeta v ^name))
       v)))</pre></div><div class="license"><p>Copyright (c) Rich Hickey. All rights reserved.</p><p>The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php">Eclipse Public License 1.0</a>, which can be found in the file
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